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Pingyao Premiere The Pingyao International Film Festival will mark its 10th edition with a run set for Sept. 24–30, at the Pingyao Festival Palace in Shanxi Province. Founded in 2017 by director Jia Zhangke, the festival spans four programs: Screening, Market, Cultivation and Academics. The Screening slate will include Crouching Tigers, dedicated to emerging directors’ debut, second or third features; Hidden Dragons, reserved for Chinese-language filmmakers at a similar career stage; and Galas, showcasing major works and festival prizewinners. Films in Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons will compete for the Roberto Rossellini Awards and the Fei Mu Awards, with the Fei Mu Best Film prize carrying a cash award of RMB1 million and Best Director earning RMB200,000. Past editions have showcased early works from directors including Chloé Zhao, Wei Shujun and Liu Jian, among many others. Bhopal Bow India’s Madhya Pradesh state will get its own festival platform, with the inaugural

“Le Faux Soir,” a Belgian-French WWII resistance drama from “Bullhead” director Michaël R. Roskam, has been set as the closing night film of this year’s San Sebastián Film Festival. Playing in the festival’s Official Selection out of competition, the film will have its European premiere at San Sebastián after world premiering at Toronto, where it screens in Special Presentations. It will close the festival after the awards ceremony on Sept. 26 at the Kursaal. “Le Faux Soir” is produced by Belgium’s Frakas Productions and Roskam’s Harbor Men Pictures with France’s Rectangle Productions. Goodfellas handles international sales, while Cinéart will release the film in Benelux. Set in Nazi-occupied Belgium in 1943, the film follows a group of Resistance fighters after the occupying forces turn national daily Le Soir into a propaganda outlet. With commemorations of the 1918 Armistice banned, they hatch a plan to produce a fake edition of the newspaper,

Eight major Japanese publishers, studios and production companies will pitch intellectual property to international buyers at the second edition of Tokyo IP Market: Adaptation & Remake, running Oct. 28-30 at Tiffcom 2026 in Tokyo. The platform, known as Tipm, will host one-on-one business meetings and open pitching sessions at the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center Hamamatsucho-Kan. Producers from Hollywood, Europe and Asia will attend, seeking to secure rights to adapt and remake Japanese manga, novels and classic films. This year’s participants are Amuse Creative Studio, Kadokawa, Nihon Bungeisha, Nippon Animation, Shochiku, Shufu to Seikatsu Sha, Square Enix and Toei. The eight-company roster marks an expansion from the six IP holders at last year’s inaugural Tipm edition. The market traces its origins to the Tokyo Story Market, a dedicated service for screen adaptation rights covering Japanese manga and novels, which launched at Tiffcom in 2023. At Tiffcom 2025, it was rebranded as Tipm

Romanian filmmaker Florin Şerban, whose bleak study of systemic racism and toxic masculinity “You Don’t Belong Here” won the Golden Leopard at the recently wrapped Locarno Film Festival, is prepping his next feature film. Speaking to Variety at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where “You Don’t Belong Here” is playing in the main competition, the director shared details about his next project, “Ela, or the Diary of a Dutiful Daughter From Romania,” for which casting is already underway. Written by Adriana Neagoe, “Ela” is “a story about a girl who needs to go away from a family that is very troubled, bounded by alcoholism and violence. She needs to leave before she repeats the story herself, because her life is going in that direction,” said Şerban. Inspired by the book “Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter,” by French existentialist philosopher and writer Simone de Beauvoir, the film follows a young Romanian woman

The 31st Busan International Film Festival (Biff) has unveiled a Special Program in Focus honoring the late Korean screen legend Ahn Sung-ki, while the festival’s market arm has named Thailand the first-ever recipient of a new top-tier country partnership. “Those Beautiful Years, Ahn Sung-ki” serves as the grand finale to the nationwide tributes paid to the actor, who died earlier this year. The six-film lineup was hand-picked by Ahn himself before his passing and centers on his 1980s and 1990s peak, including “A Fine, Windy Day” (1980), “Whale Hunting” (1984), “Chil-su and Man-su” (1988), “Gagman” (1989), “White Badge” (1992) and “Festival” (1996). Each screening will include a guest visit featuring longtime collaborators, among them directors Lee Jang-ho, Bae Chang-ho and Chung Jiyoung, along with actors Kim Bo-Yeon and Bae Jong-ok. Biff will also publish an essay collection on Ahn’s career and legacy, co-hosted with the Korean Film Archive. Ahn’s screen career stretched nearly seven decades,

Zurich Film Festival is to honor actress Naomi Watts with the Golden Eye Award for her performance in Ben Shirinian’s “The Housewife.” In Zurich, she will present the film, in which she portrays the enigmatic wife of a suspected Nazi. The actress will personally accept the award on Sept. 26 and offer insights into her career during a Zff Masters session. The festival described Watts, who has earned two Academy Award nominations, as “an artist renowned for her emotional depth, versatility and unwavering commitment to her roles.” In “The Housewife,” she plays an elegant and inscrutable woman living in 1960s New York whose flawless façade gradually begins to crack when a young journalist from the New York Times uncovers clues about her husband’s dark past. Christian Jungen, CEO of the festival, said, “Since her breakthrough in David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive,’ Naomi Watts has been one of the most fascinating actresses of our time.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has joined the investigation into Hayden Panettiere’s death, according to ABC News. The DEA is entering a joint effort with South Carolina’s Greenville Police Department and the local coroner’s office, according to TMZ. Panettiere died Sunday night at age 36. The official cause of death has not yet been determined. In her 2026 memoir “This Is Me: A Reckoning,” Panettiere went into detail about her years-long struggles with drug and alcohol addiction. After news broke of Panettiere’s death, tributes from across Hollywood came pouring in online. On Wednesday, Jack Coleman, who played her father on “Heroes,” shared an emotional tribute on Instagram. “I’m heartbroken. I couldn’t begin to put my thoughts into words until now, and they will be inadequate,” Coleman wrote. “I’ve loved Hayden since day one of the pilot of ‘Heroes,’ 20 years ago, when she introduced herself by shouting

The following article is an excerpt from the new edition of “IndieWire’s The Lead Up,” a weekly newsletter in which our Awards Editor Marcus Jones takes readers on the awards trail, interviewing key figures responsible for some of the most compelling stories of the season, and offering predictions on who will win. Subscribe here to receive the newsletter in your inbox each week. Going into the week before final Emmys voting kicked off, if you asked me which nominee would win Outstanding Comedy Series, I would have said “Widow’s Bay.” To be second in Comedy nominations after only premiering in May (and with its final three episodes not even eligible this year) is quite the feat for Apple TV’s freshman horror comedy. However — and disclaimer: I say this not having gone to the show’s events at the Culver Hotel and the Hollywood Forever Cemetery — I’ve since changed tune.